A motor control method adapted for use in the startup process of a sensorless brushless DC (BLDC) motor includes the following steps. A phase voltage signal and a driving voltage signal are generated according to the startup current signal with a first predetermined value and a phase current signal. A driving current signal is generated according to the driving voltage signal to drive the BLDC to rotate. The driving current signal is sensed to generate the corresponding phase current signal. The load state of the shaft end of the BLDC is determined according to the phase voltage signal with the change of the corresponding phase current signal and the startup current signal. The magnitude of the startup current signal is adaptively adjusted according to the load state of the shaft end and/or according to the electric rotation angular velocity and the torque demand of the BLDC motor.

An actuator includes an actuator housing having a first engagement feature and a motor located within the actuator housing and configured to rotate a driver. The actuator also includes a stroke limiting component coupled to the driver and has a second engagement feature. One of the first and second engagement features is a channel and another of the first and second engagement features is a protrusion. The protrusion is configured to fit within the channel to define a stroke of the actuator based at least in part on a length of the channel or a length of the protrusion.

The invention discloses a control system for LRA, applicable to an LRA having a speed sensing coil. The control system comprises a signal amplifier, an excitation device, a flow controller, a processing unit, and a driver. The processing unit is connected to the signal amplifier, the excitation device and the flow controller, so as to stop output, output the excitation signal as a driving signal or process the induction signal from the signal amplifier into an appropriate system damping coefficient and output as a driving signal when the flow controller outputs a stop, excitation or braking state signal, respectively.

An agricultural system includes a controller comprising a memory and a processor. The controller is configured to receive a sensor signal, determine a current flow based on the sensor signal, determine whether the current flow exceeds a current threshold for a time threshold, and operate a drive system of the agricultural system in an alternative operation instead of a normal operation in response to determining the current flow exceeds the current threshold for the time threshold.

A motor driving device for driving a motor having multiple windings corresponding to multiple phases, respectively, may include: a first inverter including multiple first switching elements and connected to a first end of each of the multiple windings; a second inverter including multiple second switching elements and connected a second end of each of the multiple windings; a third switching element configured to connect/disconnect points, at which the number of turns of each of the multiple windings is partitioned based on a predetermined ratio, to/from each other; and a controller configured to control, based on the required output of the motor, an on/off state of the first switching elements to the third switching element.

An inverter device includes: an inverter, a power supply current detection sensor, a phase current detection sensor, a three-phase voltage command calculator, and an inverter on/off signal generation unit. The phase current detection sensor detects a phase current in one phase of the inverter. The inverter on/off signal generation unit generates on/off signals based on the phase voltage commands. The three-phase voltage command calculator uses the power supply current and the phase current detected by the power supply current detection sensor and the phase current detection sensor, respectively, so as to calculate phase voltage commands directed to the inverter, and at a center time point of a period in which an upper arm switching element corresponding to one phase out of two phases for which the phase current detection sensor is not provided is on, and lower arm switching elements corresponding to the other two phases are on.

Method of controlling a multi-level inverter having inputs connected to a gate drive unit controlling the inverter and an output connected to a load, the multi-level inverter capable of generating a PWM voltage signal having three or more modulation levels, the inverter powered by a voltage supply and comprising at least one neutral point (NP), the method comprising operating the multi-level inverter in a standard modulation pattern having three or more modulation levels when one or more parameters representative of neutral point stability each have a value within a first range indicative of a high neutral point stability, and operating the multi-level inverter with a two-level modulation pattern when said one or more parameters representative of neutral point stability each have a value within a second range indicative of a low neutral point stability, the first range separated from the second range by a threshold value.

When the connection between a DC power source and a multigroup-multiphase electric-power conversion apparatus is cut off, a control apparatus controls switching devices so that the respective states of the two or more groups of electric-power conversion apparatuses included in the multigroup-multiphase electric-power conversion apparatus are each switched stepwise from all-phase short-circuiting state to an all-phase cutoff state at different timings.

The invention relates to a device and to a plurality of methods for transporting. One method includes moving a plurality of transport movement devices (14) along a guide track (22) by means of a linear motor system. A long stator (16) of the linear motor system has, along a portion of the guide track (22), a predetermined functional region. The method includes portion-wise varying of a magnetic field generation of the long stator (16) within the predetermined functional region (46) for successive transport movement devices of the plurality of transport movement devices (14). It is thus possible to achieve various advantages, such as for example prolonging the motor service life, preventing emergency shut-offs, increased performance of the long stator linear motor and/or allowing smaller dimensioning of the long stator (16).

A control circuit for a motor has a driving state and a braking state and includes a driving branch and a braking branch. The driving branch includes a branch formed by a stator winding and a rotor. The braking branch includes a branch formed by the stator winding, a braking switch, and an electrical energy storage component. The electrical energy storage component is configured to provide an electrical energy to the braking branch. When the motor is in the braking state, if the braking branch is detected as short-circuited, the connection between the stator winding and the rotor of the driving branch is turned on. Further provided is a power tool including the above control circuit.